Perspectives on Feminist Thought Concerning the New Reproductive Technologies

ROSEMARIE TONG

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1990 4:30 p.m.

The Claremont Philosophy Colloquium, the CMC
Women's Forum, and the Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum are pleased to present Dr. Rosemarie
Tong. She will speak on "Perspectives on Feminist
Thought Concerning the New Reproductive Technologies." Her lecture, beginning at 4:30, will focus
primarily on questions and issues concerning surrogate motherhood and in vitro fertilization.

Dr. Tong is presently a professor of philosophy at
Davidson College in North Carolina. She is the
author of a number of works, including Women, Sex,
and the Law (1984), Ethics in Policy Analysis (1986), and Feminist
Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction (1989). She was the
1986 recipient of the Professor of the Year Award by
the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching.

Dr. Tong's lecture will begin at 4:30 in the Security Pacific Lounge, and will be followed by a 5:30 reception and a 6:00
dinner. Please fill out the enclosed reservation coupon and return it to the Athenaeum.

An Evening with Czeslaw Milosz

CZESLAW MILOSZ

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1990 7:00 p.m.

Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, essayist, and novelist, was a leading avant-garde poet in Poland in
the 1930s, and participated in the Resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. After
several years in the diplomatic service, he severed his
ties with the post-war Polish government and came
to America. He now teaches in the Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of
California, Berkeley.

His books of poetry in English translation include
Bells in Winter (1978), Selected Poems (1973), The Separate Notebooks (1986),
and Unattainable Earth (1986).

Professor Milosz was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for literature in 1978, the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1980, and is a member of the
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

The visit of this distinguished poet is sponsored by
the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. There will
be a small dinner by invitation only. Everyone is
invited to Mr. Milosz' address and reading, which
will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Pickford Auditorium.

The Challenge of Diversity: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

BARBARA CHRISTIAN
CLARA SUE KIDWELL
PEGGY MCINTOSH
PATRICIA ZAVELLA

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1990

The Women's Studies Convocation, the California Council for the Humanities, and the Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum are pleased to open a conference titled "The Challenge of Diversity: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and
Gender." This evening's convocation at 7:00 p.m. in McKenna Auditorium features Barbara Christian, Clara Sue
Kidwell, Peggy Mcintosh, and Patricia Zavella. These eminent scholars will address different ethnic and cultural
perspectives in communities, will focus their presentations on concerns of minority groups, and will provide an open
and informed discussion of race, ethnicity, class, and gender.

Barbara Christian is a professor in the Afro-American Studies
Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She
received her B.A. from Marquette University and her M.A. and
Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she was the first woman
in the contemporary British and American literature program.
Currently she is engaged in activities for The Women's Studies
and Afro-American departments at Berkeley, and special projects directed toward education in the black and women's
communities of the East Bay/Berkeley areas.

Clara Sue Kidwell is an associate professor of Native
American studies at the University of California, Berkeley,
where she has taught since 1974. She received her Ph.D. in the
history of science at the University of Oklahoma in 1970. Her
involvement in Indian education began with a teaching appointment at Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas.
Subsequently she taught in the American Indian Studies
Department at the University of Minnesota, before joining the
Berkeley faculty. Her tribal background is Choctaw and
Chippewa.

Peggy Mcintosh is associate director of the Wellesley College
Center for Research on Women. She has consulted widely
throughout the country with college, university, and secondary
school faculty interested in integrating materials and perspectives from women's studies into their curricula. Mcintosh has
taught at Harvard University, Trinity College (Washington,
D.C.), the University of Denver, the University of Durham
(England), and Wellesley College.

Patricia Zavella, a social anthropologist, graduated from
Pitzer College in 1973 and received her Ph.D. in anthropology
from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written on
the relationship between Chicano women's wage work and family organization, showing the interconnections between
class, race, and gender in structuring women's lives.

Please use the enclosed coupon, if you wish to attend the 5:30 reception and 6:00 dinner prior to the 7:00 address in
McKenna Auditorium.

Musical Tea

LEON BATES

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1990 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Pianist Leon Bates has established himself as one of the leading pianists in America. In addition to his Carnegie Hall
and Alice Tully Hall appearances, he has performed at the Jordan Hall in Boston, the Kennedy Center, the Academy
of Music in Philadelphia, and has appeared many times on the Today's Artists series in San Francisco. He has performed
with major symphonies, such as the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has also given
concerts throughout Europe and Canada.

A native of Philadelphia, Leon Bates began his formal
study of music at the age of six on both piano and violin.
While still young, his teachers recognized his musical
genius, and he was groomed for a concert career.

Performances of "Gershwin by Request" are scheduled in Florida, Detroit, New York, and San Francisco.
The program will be presented in Claremont at Bridges
Auditorium on Saturday, March 24.

Join us on Friday, March 23, in Childs Lounge for this
unique opportunity to meet an outstanding musician in
an informal setting and hear him play Gershwin and
other American favorites.

SUNDAY BRUNCH
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1990

The Sunday brunch extravaganza is here! The
next Sunday brunch will take place on March 25
at 11:00. Sunday brunch only comes once a
month and is extremely popular-so it fills up
quickly! Return the enclosed coupon as early as
possible, so you don't miss this delectable
event. Sunday brunch is limited to CMC students and one guest per student. CMC faculty
and staff are also invited and encouraged to
come.

The Future of the U.S.S.R.

JAMES BILLINGTON

MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1990 4:00 p.m.

The Athenaeum is pleased to welcome James H.
Billington, the current librarian of Congress, as the
final speaker in this semester's series on the Soviet
Union. In his speech, "The Future of the U.S.S.R.," Mr.
Billington discusses the rapid changes now occurring in
the Soviet Union and their effects on the country's
future.

In addition to his current position in Washington,
D.C., Mr. Billington is an accomplished writer and
historian. He began his teaching career at Harvard
University in 1957, and later became a professor of
history at Princeton University. For most of the past 15
years, Mr. Billington has served as director of the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
where he was in charge of establishing the Kennan
Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. He is the
author of several books, including The Icon and the Axe (1966), a
major work on Russian intellectual history. He has
appeared on numerous television shows and has been
to the Soviet Union several times. In 1988 he accompanied President Reagan to the Soviet summit.

Mr. Billington received his undergraduate degree
from Princeton and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar at Balliol College.
He also holds several honorary degrees and is a member
of numerous academic societies.

Mr. Billington's address will begin at 4:00 p.m. in the
Athenaeum and will be followed by a reception. There
will be no dinner.

A trio of CMC musicians will play selected trios for
cello, violin and flute by Mozart and Handel at the
Athenaeum musical tea on Tuesday, March 27. Performing will be: Jill Hawkins, violin, a junior history/women's studies major; Erin Eaves, cello, a sophomore
international relations/economics major; and Kristy
Tophen, flute, a senior government major. So come
and enjoy!

Managing the Dukakis Campaign

SUSAN ESTRICH

TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1990

The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum is pleased to
sponsor Susan Estrich as the next speaker in the
"Women of the 1990s" series. Ms. Estrich was the first
woman to chair a national presidential campaign, and
will share with us her experiences in the Dukakis
campaign.

After graduating from Wellesley College, Ms. Estrich
attended Harvard Law School, where she became the
first woman president of The Harvard Law Review. Ms.
Estrich's legal career has since followed a varied and
prestigious path. She worked as a law clerk for U.S.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and has
taught as a tenured professor at Harvard Law School.
Ms. Estrich was responsible for long-term policy development as Sen. Edward Kennedy's special assistant,
and also worked on his 1980 presidential campaign. As
senior policy adviser to the Mondale-Ferraro Campaign,
Ms. Estrich acted as adviser on domestic policy issues.
Ms. Estrich's numerous publications include the books
Real Rape (1987) and Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Target of Justice (1985), and the articles,
"Sexual Justice" (1984) and "Abortion Politics: Writing for an
Audience of One" (1989). Currently Estrich is a professor of
law at the University of Southern California Law
Center, and is a pro-choice activist who has co-written legal briefs for three abortion rights cases, two of which
are now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Please join us for Ms. Estrich's 7:00 lecture, which will
follow a 5:30 reception and 6:00 dinner. To reserve your
place at the CMC dinner, return the enclosed reservation form to the Athenaeum. Please note that this
dinner is open only to the CMC community; everyone is
welcome to attend the 7:00 address in McKenna
Auditorium.

Eminent Victorians

GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1990

Today the term Victorian morality is often used as a
synonym for sexual morality as such-sometimes,
indeed, as a code word for questioning or rejecting all
(previous) morality, sexual and otherwise. But what did
Victorian morality mean to the Victorians themselves?
What does it imply for our understanding of morality
today?

To pursue these and other vital questions, America's
foremost historian of Victorian England-one of the
country's foremost intellectual historians of any period-
visits CMC March 28 and 29 as the year's distinguished
scholar-in-residence of the Henry Salvatori Center and
the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.

Gertrude Himmelfarb is professor emeritus of history
at the Graduate School of the City University of New
York. Her scholarship, prolific and profound, ranges
from her early studies of Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952) and Darwin and the
Darwinian Revolution (1959) to her acclaimed survey of The Idea
of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age (1984) to her recent powerful critique of modern
social and economic history, The New History and the
Old (1987). She received her doctorate from the University of
Chicago, and is a fellow of the British Academy, the
Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical
Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and the Society of American Historians.

Professor Himmelfarb speaks on "Eminent Victorians" at 7:00 on Wednesday, March 28, following a
reception at 5:30 and dinner at 6:00 in the Marian Miner
Cook Athenaeum. Please fill out and return the enclosed reservation coupon, if you wish to attend.

On the following day Professor Himmelfarb will lead
a faculty seminar on the "new history," and will meet
with senior honors students to continue the discussion
of Victorian manners and mores.

The Future of Eastern Europe

CHARLES GATI

THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1990

The Keck Center for International and Strategic
Studies and the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum are
pleased to present the final speaker in the lecture series
"The Future of Communism in Europe and Asia." Dr.
Charles Gati discusses "The Future of Eastern Europe"
at the Athenaeum on March 29.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1934, he left his home
in 1956. He subsequently received his doctoral degree
from the University of Indiana. Dr. Gati is professor of
political science at Union College. From 1971 to 1988 he
was a senior research fellow at Columbia University's
Research Institute on International Change, teaching
courses on Soviet-East European relations at Columbia's Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the
Soviet Union as well.

His latest book, Soviet-East European Relations in Transition, will be published this spring. His published works
include Hungary and the Soviet Bloc (1986), The Debate over
Détente (1977), and The International Politics of Eastern Europe (1976).

He is a frequent guest on such TV programs as
"MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour," "Nightline with Ted
Koppel," and "This Week with David Brinkley."

The lecture begins at 7:00 p.m. and is preceded by a
5:30 reception and 6:00 dinner. If you wish to attend the
reception and dinner, please fill out and return the
reservation form.

You're in the Navy Now: Life After CMC

DAVID McALEXANDER '87

MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1990

Ensign David McAlexander '87, USN, returns to the
Athenaeum on April 2 to share some of his
experiences in flight training. He will also address the
challenges faced by the U.S. Navy in the changing
world of the '90s.

David majored in political science/economics at CMC,
and wrote his thesis on naval strategy in the Pacific. He
received his commission after attending Aviation Officer Candidate School in Pensacola, Florida, where he
was designated a Distinguished Naval Graduate. He
currently flies the E-2C Hawkeye with VAW-116, based
aboard the U.S.S. Ranger and NAS Miramar.

For those interested in gathering background information, David recommends reading maritime strategy in
Proceedings magazine, and consulting the works of
strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan.

Please use the enclosed coupon, if you wish to join
David McAlexander for the reception and dinner prior
to his 7:00 address.

You are cordially invited by the Athenaeum
partake of a second evening of cultural insights and
international dining. This panel will be composed of
CMC international students Craig Berman '92, Andrew
Moloko '95, Oliver Juergens '92, and Victor Rabinovich '93.

Andrew and Craig will remark on how their lives have
been influenced by apartheid, how they assess the
changes occurring in South Africa, as well as what they
predict for the future there. Victor, from Medellin,
Colombia, will share his views concerning the war on
drugs and will tell how the illicit cocaine trade has
affected his family, city, and homeland. Oliver will
comment about the possible reunification of Germany
and will discuss cultural differences he has experienced
in West Germany and the United States.

The reception for this special event begins at 5:30, and
will be followed by an international banquet, featuring
foods from South Africa, Colombia, and West Germany. If you are interested in attending this event,
please return the coupon to the Athenaeum.

ATHENAEUM FELEOW APPLICATIONS

Applications for Athenaeum student fellow are now
being accepted. We seek applicants who are
enthusiastic, creative, and have strong writing and
communication skills. Most importantly, the fellow
must have a sincere interest in Athenaeum activities.

The fellow's greatest responsibilities include planning
Athenaeum events and producing and distributing The
Fortnightly. Other duties include attending Athenaeum
Advisory Committee meetings and weekly staff meetings. Also, the student fellow should expect to attend as many events as possible, to help in hosting guests and
arranging seating at the head table. A commitment of at
least ten hours per week is required for this position.

In addition to a stipend, this position has numerous
rewards. The opportunity to meet fascinating people
and to handle managerial decisions provides pleasure
and challenge unmatched by other campus jobs.

Applications are available in the Athenaeum office,
and must be returned no later than April 3. We will
contact applicants shortly thereafter to arrange interviews. For further information, please contact Ann Ela,
Kimberly Lute, or Mike Shear at the Athenaeum at
x8244.

Dinner Theater

You Can't Take It with You by Moss Hart and George Kaufman

Thursday, April 5-Sunday April 8, 1990

Hold on to your sanity! Under the Lights is about to take you into the realm of love, craziness, and tax evasion with the timeless classic You Can't Take It with You (1936). Join the eccentric Sycamore family, whose hobbies include writing bad literature, making "love dream" candies, performing dances that would embarrass Baryshnikov, and printing confection messages that proclaim "God is the state: the state is God." If this is not enough to arouse your amusement, do not forget Grandpa, who likes attending commencements for fun; Paul and Mr. Delpinna, who produce fireworks in the cellar; and poor
Alice, normal in the midst of chaos. The stage is set for an uproarious time when Alice introduces her fiance, Tony, and his straight-laced family to her fantastic clan. Please join the cast and crew of You Can't Take It with You at the Athenaeum on April 5, 6, and 7 for dinner, or April 8 for brunch.